Running a Business and a Full Time Degree

So, I used to work in retail for 4 years, the day I left was the best day of my life. I broke free the strict routine and I had my weekends back. It was all fun and games until I ran out of money...

Luckily I had some saved up and my parents told me to look for another job whilst I finish uni. So I started looking, I had no idea what sort of part time job I wanted, until I was approached by an old friend who ran nightclub events and asked me if I could film his nightclub event, as I had just bought a DSLR I was said yeah sure, we agreed on a price, I made the video, got paid and thought nothing of it. 

A  few weeks passed and I got a message from another club asking if I could make them a video, so I did. Next thing I know I making a video almost every week. Thats when I launch Action Filming, at first it was just me and a couple of mates helping me out making event videos, now I employee 6 people and we don't only do nightclub videos but we also focus on nightclub photography and have weekly contracts with clubs in Wycombe and Oxford. The company grew so quick that we are now the biggest nightclub photography business in Wycombe and second biggest in Oxford!

I'm not going to lie from reading that it sounds like it all fell into place, it didn't, I worked hard and stayed focused. Oh and whilst doing all this I'm also just about to finish my full time degree.

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Posted by Unknown in Action Filming, business, Nightclub

Running a Business and a Full Time Degree

Shooting the Privacy of Clubbing

Many people at my age tend to have a weekend or evening job, working in retail. Well that was me till about 8 months ago, after working retail for four year I had enough of rude customers, long shift and little pay, so I decided to start my own night club photography business called Action Filming. After six months I had secured contracts for three clubs, and everything was going well and the company was growing at a good rate, we also introduced offering clubs a promotional video. However as myself and my team started taking over 200 photos per club per night we were getting a vast amount of message from people requesting that photos of themselves were taken down.

I was surprised at this and felt it fairly odd, as when I go on a night out I don't mind having my photo taken, but then people are all different. This made me think, what gives me the right to be taking photos of people in the first place without there permission? Sure there in a club where its normally expected to be a nightclub photographer, but the people in the photo never agree to have the photos taken and then to be placed on social media websites.

This brings me on to the next issue, as I mentioned I also film club events. The main difference in terms with privacy in relation to a video is once its up there is no way to remove certain people from the video, unlike photos where I can just delete their picture. However I do occasionally find that people who don't want to be in the video often ask me not film them which I take seriously and understand their situation.

In conclusion, on a night out in a club most people expect there to be a photographer at the club and have come to accept this over time, as club love to use the photos as a cheap source of promotional material there is a very low chance that clubs will ever remove club photographer because a small minority of people don't want their photos taken.

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Posted by Unknown in Nightclub, photography, privacy

Shooting the Privacy of Clubbing